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Message: [QUOTE="JJReddawg, post: 4071556, member: 226"] With everyone talking up Tony White and stating we had a top defense this year, I wanted to take a deeper dive into the numbers. The “top” defense is largely based on the yards per game, but I feel that may have been largely based on our poor special teams play giving opponents a short field. The numbers below are from Teamrankings.com, which doesn’t factor in FCS opponents. I put the 2021 stats as well the best (or second best) year under Babers. Yards per Game 2021 - 349.9 y/g (34th) 2018 - 438.1 y/g (91st) Points per Game 2021 - 26.5 p/g (58th) 2018 - 28.4 p/g (69th) Points per Play 2021 - 0.391 p/p (72nd) 2018 - 0.371 p/p (58th) Opp. Red Zone Scoring % 2021 - 86.05% (88th) 2018 - 76.60 (19th) Opp. Completion % 2021 - 66.35% (111th) 2019 - 54.36% (16th) Sacks per Game 2021 - 2.5 sacks/g (43rd) 2018 - 3.4 sacks/g (5th) Takeaways per Game 2021 - 0.5 per game (129th) 2018 - 2.3 per game (4th) (2.2 in both 2019 & 2020) [/QUOTE]